My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #47: “Take Courage” by Andrew Bird
When words begin to crumble,
Stale cake on your tongue,
Thoughts fossilise and tumble
Into back holes, one by one.
Fingers fly and fumble,
Trying to catch words
That escape like mumbles
And fly away like birds.
Eyes still see, heart still beats
Beneath thinning skin and bone.
Life’s night is slowly falling –
Take courage,
You are not alone.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
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writing in north norfolk 
Reblogged this on The Gifts That We Share and commented:
Kim captures the vulnerability felt when one finds that words can’t be found.
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Thank you kindly.
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Kim, I reblogged your poem. ( My first reblog… yeah!) Once again, you have captured a sense of the loss endured with dementia.
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Thank you so much for the reblog and the kind comment.
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